Family Time and a Trip to Oz

After a great visit with my aunts, we met up with my brother and his fiancee who are traveling in SE Asia for 3 months, in Penang for a weekend.  It was fun for us to show them around our second home, Penang and the kids of course enjoyed all the extra attention.  Steve & Audrey are backpacking and the …

New Zealand – Part 2

After 3 weeks traveling around the South Island, we were looking forward to a week of mostly staying put in one place on the North Island.  We fly into Auckland, picked up a rental car and first headed to Rotorua, a cultural centre of the Maori people and a town known for its thermal mud pools and geysers.   In …